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A 20% increase in game sales over the same quarter last year drove growth for Hasbro in its Q2, reported Tuesday. Among those games, Dungeons & Dragons got a special shout-out from CEO Brian Goldner in an interview with Jim Cramer on Mad Money, in which he revealed that D&D sales (including digital) were up 50% over the previous year. Goldner also called out D&D growth in the conference call. “Dungeons & Dragons is performing at a very high level,” he said. “I think Dungeons & Dragons is back and the team has done some very expansive marketing around that.”

Goldner also mentioned Magic: The Gathering, Monopoly, and Operation as game properties doing well in either the conference call or the Mad Money appearance.

Hasbro’s overall revenue was up 11% over the same period last year, to $972.5 million, with more than $273 million of those sales from games. (Hasbro splits its game sales between “Gaming” and “Franchise Brands.” “Franchise Brands” includes key house brands such as Magic: The Gathering and Monopoly. The $273.3 million in sales and 20% growth numbers include all game sales, including franchise brands, and the digital components of those sales.)

Goldner called out Twitch as driving interest in both D&D and Magic: The Gathering, with one million people watching Magic: The Gathering tournament play each month, and D&D channel views in the “millions.”